Strasbourg, 12/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - Under pressure, especially from German MEPs in the EPP-ED Group, the European Parliament, in Strasbourg on Thursday 12 March, amended the initial report by Vincenzo Aita (GUE/NGL, Italy) on measures to prevent the degradation of agricultural land (see EUROPE 9842). The alternative resolution, adopted by 327 votes to 268, with 11 abstentions, no longer presses member states to adopt a common position on the draft framework directive on soil protection...